Theorization And Representations In Linguistics

Author : Viviane Arigne,Christiane Migette
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 388 pages
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Release : 2018-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527521155

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Theorization and Representations in Linguistics by Viviane Arigne,Christiane Migette Pdf

This book addresses some issues of theorization in linguistics having to do with the systems of representation used in linguistics and the relation between linguistics and cognition. The essays gathered in the first part question the very concept of metalanguage, comparing the metalanguage used in formalised languages and that of natural languages, or examining Chomsky’s theory of mental representations in relation to semantic description and analysis. In the same line of thought, another contribution endeavours to show how the notational system of a linguistic theory is part and parcel of both conceptualisation and theorisation, in an analysis based on the early development of phonetics and phonology. The second part of the volume studies the relations between linguistics and cognition seen under different angles. The first study examines how the relation between cognitive linguistics and other disciplines is conducive to confusion and divergences in the interpretation of the terminology, and is followed by a discussion of the origins and development of prototype theory in psychology and its transfer in linguistics by cognitive semanticists. The last two chapters study how mental operations are expressed in language, analysing the cognitive processes of deductive vs. abductive inference on the one hand, and the metarepresentation of utterance acts by assertive shell-nouns on the other hand.

Author : Antoine Culioli
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027276537

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Cognition and Representation in Linguistic Theory by Antoine Culioli Pdf

The objective of this book is to better acquaint English-speaking linguistics with a corpus of texts hitherto untranslated, containing the cognitive-based research in formal linguistics of one of the most important theoreticians in the field: Antoine Culioli (b. 1924). Culioli's viewpoint is grounded in Emile Benveniste's (1902-1976) revolutionary answer to Saussure's opposition between competence (langue) and performance (parole) captured in the idea of énonciation, in which the relationship between an individual and a language is one of appropriation. The translation has been prepared to provide the reader with as obstacle-free a path as one can clear to a theory that requires, and indeed commands, a very close, attentive reading. As an additional aid to understand Culioli's argument, footnotes throughout the work show similarities and differences with the work of the cognitive linguist Ronald W. Langacker.

Author : Eric Lawrence Gans
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0520042026

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The Origin of Language by Eric Lawrence Gans Pdf

Author : Stephen R. Anderson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1985-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226019161

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Phonology in the Twentieth Century by Stephen R. Anderson Pdf

Author : H. Haider,K. Netter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401134460

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Representation and Derivation in the Theory of Grammar by H. Haider,K. Netter Pdf

Derivation or Representation? Hubert Haider & Klaus Netter 1 The Issue Derivation and Representation - these keywords refer both to a conceptual as well as to an empirical issue. Transformational grammar was in its outset (Chomsky 1957, 1975) a derivational theory which characterized a well-formed sentence by its derivation, i.e. a set of syntactic representations defined by a set of rules that map one representation into another. The set of mapping rules, the transformations, eventually became more and more abstract and were trivialized into a single one, namely "move a" , a general movement-rule. The constraints on movement were singled out in systems of principles that ap ply to the resulting representations, i.e. the configurations containing a moved element and its extraction site, the trace. The introduction of trace-theory (d. Chomsky 1977, ch.3 §17, ch. 4) in principle opened up the possibility of com pletely abandoning movement and generating the possible outputs of movement directly, i.e. as structures that contain gaps representing the extraction sites.

Author : Jan Nuyts,A. Machtelt Bolkestein,Co Vet
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027250230

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Layers and Levels of Representation in Language Theory by Jan Nuyts,A. Machtelt Bolkestein,Co Vet Pdf

Rather than simply a record of proceedings (3rd International Conference on Functional Grammar, Amsterdam, June 1988), this volume contains revised and expanded papers from the conference and other papers inspired by the lively discussion there. The volume focuses on the nature of the structures assumed to underlie utterances in natural languages, in two respects. One area is the question of whether to expand the representations accepted in Functional Grammar (FG) in order to capture interpersonal functions, i.e., communication between speaker and hearer in a particular situation and context, to include, for example, aspect, tense, modality and illocutionary force. The second area concerns whether current underlying representation in FG is sufficiently abstract to be the format for the deepest level of human conceptual knowledge storage, as discussed by Simon Dik in a number of recent articles.

Author : Jeroen Groenendijk,Dick de Jongh,Martin Stokhof
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783112420027

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Studies in Discourse Representation Theory and the Theory of Generalized Quantifiers by Jeroen Groenendijk,Dick de Jongh,Martin Stokhof Pdf

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Author : Hans Kamp,Uwe Reyle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993-07-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 079232403X

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From Discourse to Logic by Hans Kamp,Uwe Reyle Pdf

Preface This book is about semantics and logic. More specifically, it is about the semantics and logic of natural language; and, even more specifically than that, it is about a particular way of dealing with those subjects, known as Discourse Representation Theory, or DRT. DRT is an approach towards natural language semantics which, some thirteen years ago, arose out of attempts to deal with two distinct problems. The first of those was the semantic puzzle that had been brought to contempo rary attention by Geach's notorious "donkey sentences" - sentences like If Pedro owns some donkey, he beats it, in which the anaphoric connection we perceive between the indefinite noun phrase some donkey and the pronoun it may seem to conflict with the existential meaning of the word some. The second problem had to do with tense and aspect. Some languages, for instance French and the other Romance languages, have two morphologically distinct past tenses, a simple past (the French Passe Simple) and a continuous past (the French Imparfait). To articulate precisely what the difference between these tenses is has turned out to be surprisingly difficult.

Author : Alfred Marleku
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783656258315

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Representation: the production of meaning through language by Alfred Marleku Pdf

Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, University of Prishtina, course: Constructivism and Semiotics, language: English, abstract: Human beings created a world of messages and meanings and continue to create new ones to look for the meaning of life. In order to communicate with each other and leave their stories for the new generation, humans have been using the power of images and symbols since the beginning of the human history. It is this greatest purpose – communication – that makes human beings to construct their system of signs and symbols – their language – to make the world meaningful. This essay is an attempt to deal, in general, with question of representation – the production of meaning through language. In first part of the essay we define, shortly, three theories of representation, with the main focus on the constructionist theory. In the second part we will show how the constructionist approach has to do with representation, the relationship between them. And, in third part we will explain the importance that these theories have in relation with communication. We will focus our attention on structuralist semiotics – in Ferdinand de Saussure and Roland Barthes works.

Author : María de Ponte,Kepa Korta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191023651

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Reference and Representation in Thought and Language by María de Ponte,Kepa Korta Pdf

This volume offers novel views on the precise relation between reference to an object by means of a linguistic expression and our mental representation of that object, long a source of debate in the philosophy of language, linguistics, and cognitive science. Chapters in this volume deal with our devices for singular reference and singular representation, with most focusing on linguistic expressions that are used to refer to particular objects, persons, or places. These expressions include proper names such as Mary and John; indexicals such as I and tomorrow; demonstrative pronouns such as this and that; and some definite and indefinite descriptions such as The Queen of England or a medical doctor. Other chapters examine the ways we represent objects in thought, particularly the first-person perspective and the self, and one explores a notion common to reference and representation: salience. The volume includes the latest views on these complex topics from some of the most prominent authors in the field and will be of interest to anyone working on issues of reference and representation in thought and language.

Author : Edwin Williams
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262265079

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Representation Theory by Edwin Williams Pdf

In this theoretical monograph, Edwin Williams demonstrates that when syntax is economical, it economizes on shape distortion rather than on distance. According to Williams, this new notion of economy calls for a new architecture for the grammatical system—in fact, for a new notion of derivation. The new architecture offers a style of clausal embedding—the Level Embedding Scheme—that predictively ties together the locality, reconstructive behavior, and "target" type of any syntactic process in a way that is unique to the model. Williams calls his theory "Representation Theory" to put the notion of economy at the forefront. Syntax, in this theory, is a series of representations of one sublanguage in another.

Author : Eva Mestre Mestre,Carlos Periñán
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443887922

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Understanding Meaning and Knowledge Representation by Eva Mestre Mestre,Carlos Periñán Pdf

Today, there is a need to develop natural language processing (NLP) systems from deeper linguistic approaches. Although there are many NLP applications which can work without taking into account any linguistic theory, this type of system can only be described as “deceptively intelligent”. On the other hand, however, those computer programs requiring some language comprehension capability should be grounded in a robust linguistic model if they are to display the expected behaviour. The purpose of this book is to examine and discuss recent work in meaning and knowledge representation within theoretical linguistics and cognitive linguistics, particularly research which can be reused to model NLP applications.

Author : Karl Bühler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027211828

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Theory of Language by Karl Bühler Pdf

Karl Buhler (1879-1963) was one of the leading theoreticians of language of the twentieth century. This is an English translation of Buhler's theory that begins with a survey on 'Buhler's legacy' for modern linguistics (Werner Abraham), followed by the Theory of Language, and finally with a special 'Postscript: Twenty-five Years Later !'

Author : Jerrold M. Sadock
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Education
ISBN : 0226733440

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Autolexical Syntax by Jerrold M. Sadock Pdf

In Autolexical Syntax, Jerrold M. Sadock argues for a radical departure from the derivational model of grammar that has prevailed in linguistics for thirty years. He offers an alternative theory in which the various components of grammar—in particular syntax, semantics, and morphology—are viewed as fully autonomous descriptive devices for various parallel dimensions of linguistic representation. The lexicon in this theory forges the connection between autonomous representations in that a typical lexeme plays a role in all three of the major components of the grammar. Sadock's principal innovation is the postulation of a uniform set of interface conditions that require the several orthogonal representations of a single natural language expression to match up in certain ways. Through a detailed application of his theory to the twin morphosyntactic problems of cliticization and incorporation, Sadock shows that very straightforward accounts are made possible by the nonderivational model. He demonstrates the empirical success of these accounts by examining more than two dozen morphosyntactic problems in almost as many languages. Autolexical Syntax will be of interest to those in the fields of theoretical grammar, particularly concerned with the problems of morphology and syntax, as well as philosophers of language, logicians, lexicographers, psychologists of language, and computer scientists.

Author : Sabrina Bendjaballah,Ali Tifrit,Laurence Voeltzel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110691948

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Perspectives on Element Theory by Sabrina Bendjaballah,Ali Tifrit,Laurence Voeltzel Pdf

Element Theory (ET) covers a range of approaches that consider privativity a central tenet defining the internal structure of segments. This volume provides an overview and extension of this program, exploring new lines of research within phonology and at its interface (phonetics and syntax). The present collection reflects on issues concerning the definition of privative primes, their interactions, organization, and the operations that constrain phonological and syntactic representations. The contributions reassess theoretical questions, which have been implicitly taken for granted, regarding privativity and its corollaries. On the empirical side, it explores the possibilities ET offers to analyze specific languages and phonological phenomena.